3 h. ago Scottish pupil named a Time magazine girl of the year for solar

Rebecca Young, 13, named one of 10 girls of the year for her invention intended to help rough sleepers in winterA Scottish schoolgirl has been named a “girl of the year” by Time magazine after she invented a solar-powered thermal blanket to help rough sleepers keep warm.Rebecca Young, 13, came up with her design after seeing homeless people struggling in subzero temperatures on the streets of her home city, Glasgow, in winter. She said her message to young people was: “If you see a problem you think you can fix, you can do something about it.” Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Scot, 12, named on Time’s first Girls of the Year list after homelessness design

Rebecca Young, from Glasgow, designed a solar-powered backpack with an electric blanket inside to help homeless people.

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47 h. ago White House says homeless people in DC will be forced into shelters or put in jail. Advocates say ‘that should terrify everyone’

Trump is criminalizing homelessness while doing ‘nothing’ to make housing more affordable, critics tell Alex Woodward

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56 h. ago Trump says crime in Washington DC is ‘out of control’. The stats suggest otherwise

President insists capital in need of ‘liberation’ from ‘violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people’ but data says no such problem exists

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67 h. ago Over 40 rough sleepers line Oxford Street with makeshift beds after migrant 'shanty town' is cleared

More than 40 rough sleepers have set up camp on Britain's most famous shopping street just weeks after a 'tent city' of homeless people was broken up. 

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3 d. ago Trump to hold press conference after ordering homeless to leave Washington DC – US politics live

President says he has plans to make capital ‘safer and more beautiful’ after social media attack on homeless peoplePresident Donald Trump’s news conference is due to take place in about two-and-a-half hours and it follows his Truth Social promising the new measures“will, essentially, stop violent crime” in the capital district, without explaining how.In a subsequent post, he said that the news conference at 10am on Monday, “will not only involve ending the Crime, Murder, and Death in our Nation’s Capital, but will also be about Cleanliness”. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago 'I let homeless people sleep on my sofa, even my mum thinks I'm mad'

Over the past five years Stuart Potts has offered hundreds of homeless people a place to stay

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8 d. ago Secret government docs reveal 'utter devastation' if Hiroshima bomb was dropped on London

A blast the size of Hiroshima would render London a flattened wasteland, killing 50,000 people and leaving 400,000 homeless, according to secret government maps

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9 d. ago 1,600 exotic birds seized at airport in huge customs crackdown

The country has become a transit hub for trafficking in animals and wildlife products

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4 w. ago Spain begins evicting homeless people from airport as crackdown begins

The Spanish airport authority, AENA, has warned that homeless people will have to leave Barajas in Madrid after a reception centre is set up.

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The Spanish airport authority, AENA, has warned that homeless people will have to leave Barajas in Madrid after a reception centre is set up.

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4 w. ago Cuban minister resigns after saying beggars in the country were all fakes

Minister of Labor and Social Security Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera resigned after her comments on Monday

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last month Welsh Premier Inn hotel rejects claim it's housing homeless people

The claim was made ahead of a licensing decision after proposed changes at the hotel at Pemberton Business Park, Llanelli

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